Buoyed all day by thousands of cheering onlookers, President-elect Barack Obama brought his whistle-stop journey to the nation's capital Saturday to kick off a weekend of festivities before his inauguration as the 44th U.S. president.

Sen. Joe Biden will head closer to his childhood home Monday with a campaign swing through Pennsylvania, where he'll make his first appearance in his native Scranton as the Democratic vice presidential nominee.

In 1776, Washington crossed the Delaware to beat the British. New Jersey and Delaware have been fighting over it ever since. This month, their river boundary battle the latest installment of which has produced threats of economic sanctions, battleship diplomacy and militia action goes to the U.S. Supreme Court for the third time in 130 years.